In His Name, be He glorified!
According to an inner meaning of the verse, No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another , no one is answerable for another's error, even the perpetrator's brother. So is there any law in the world that could lay charges against one hundred and thirty books with their hundred thousand pages on account of one page of a hundred‑page treatise, even if in the view of the obdurately unfair it contained an error? In any event, five courts of law have acquitted the same books over the past thirty years. Also, twenty courts were involved with them due to the Malatya Incident. Those twenty courts said they could find nothing reprehensible in them. Also, no one has been in any way harmed by the six hundred thousand copies that have been disseminated both in this country and abroad, and even Christians have read them in the place they call the Nur Study Centre inside one of Europe's leading schools, and they have been regarded highly in the Islamic world and have spread there, and a treatise from the Risale-i Nur printed in the Pakistani magazine as-Siddīq was even sent to the Directorate of Religious Affairs, and although it has been published so widely no religious scholar has objected to it. All this shows that to protect the Risale-i Nur is a genuine duty of the Religious Affairs Directorate.
For like the Office of the Şeyhülislam, the Directorate is the religious instructor not only of Turkey but of all the Islamic world, with which it has relations and connections. It is essential at the present time especially, that the world of Islam looks completely favourably on it and does not entertain doubts about it. Furthermore, the Risale‑i Nur has been met favourably everywhere in the Islamic world and even in Europe and effectively disallows the Islamic governments which are not allied with Turkey looking negatively on the Directorate, and thus defends the Directorate's honour. It is therefore imperative that the Directorate publishes the Risale-i Nur as one of its own works. The experts' committee should give due consideration to this point. For these reasons, the members and hojas of the Directorate should be concerning themselves with the Risale-i Nur a hundred times more than wretched Said Nursi and Nur students, so that it may be protected and preserved in the face of the assaults of the irreligious. The intriguers should be silenced who are preventing its publication despite its numerous acquittals.
Saîd Nursî